SDG STRIKER seeks (1) to increase the organisational capacity for Good Governance in grassroots sport organisations by assisting them to implement and communicate the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and (2) to develop a joint understanding about best practices before, during and after being tested, and assess their potential for replication across national sports federations - and beyond national borders. This project brings together 6 partners, 3 technical (Ecoserveis, the Energy Institute of the Johannes Kepler University and the European Football Development Network), and three UEFA football associations (Portugal, Norway and Scotland).For the first goal, the project will collate and summarize relevant research on the sustainability aspects of the three focus areas to be implemented in the next phase: energy poverty/efficiency, PV feasibility and greener turf filler). Also, will develop a survey targeting grassroots football clubs to assess their needs and current practices in the focus areas, and offer mentoring to increase their competences. Each country will run a specific pilot targeting grassroots clubs that will be evaluated and validated later on. Transfer knowledge and transferability is also an important issue in SDG STRIKER, therefore for goal 2, a set of Intellectual Outputs will be disseminated in 8 Multiplier Sport Events and face to face meetings: (a) a practical guide on how to incorporate and communicate SDGs in sports organisations, (b) an evaluation report of the pilots, (c) a strategic guide for SDGs practitioners which will include policy recommendations and (d) a new and innovative digest on SDGs in sports aiming at sport club owners, facilities' managers and sportspeople. The project’s life span is 30 month, and covers 6 European countries.

<< Background >>PlayGreen comes with one theory: there is a need to enhance sustainability in sports, but sports can also be a platform for people interested in sustainability to be more active. We wanted to test this theory in four countries with environmental volunteers. The selected sport was football which is largely a male-dominated sport and, since environmental volunteers are mainly women, PlayGreen also wanted to make females be more engaged in doing sports through the environmental incentive.<< Objectives >>O1: Create volunteering opportunities focused on sport and environment for young people to engage in sport, by testing and promoting a new volunteering format. The idea is that environmental volunteers will engage in playing sports if they are driven to green sports events.O2: Create a European network of organisations enhancing sustainability in grassroots sports through volunteering programs and the sharing of good practices. This ensures that knowledge is distributed to other organisations.<< Implementation >>I1: Mentoring was offered to environmental volunteers online through a series of knowledge (webinars) and practice (videos, resources and workshops) , so that they could prepare the green event which was organized in each participating country.I2: During the PlayGreen events, communication was done to gather a network of organisations. A newsletter was created as well as a dedicated Instagram account. Multiplier Events were dedicated to promote the project resources and foster replicability.<< Results >>R1: 4 webinars and 4 practice videos were produced and watched 775 times, on top of the 212 registrants to the webinars where sports and sustainability specialists talked both to provide knowledge and to be role models and inspire. 9 PlayGreen events also took place in 4 countries using the mentoring tools.R2: More than 200 organisations in the field of sustainability and sports were reached.R3: A total of 14 sustainable sport events were organized and 9 were able to be carried out.

Climatubers intends to link digital technologies with social action, in this case to foster action to tackle the emerging challenge of climate change-driven inequalities. Climatubers will use the Participatory Video (PV) methodology to lead digitally excluded groups and youth from vulnerable areas on articulating narratives around climate change-driven inequalities, and on producing and disseminating a video explaining their story.PV is a methodological approach in which a group of individuals create a film on an issue of interest or concern, deciding what is important to include and how they wish to be represented. The idea behind PV is to empower communities by accompanying those into the process of identifying their own difficulties related to the climate change consequences, and proving support for telling the story to other social agents. PV makes prominent the process, and while identifying their vulnerability to climate change, the participants learn new skills for using a video-camera, editing software, audio-visual online storage and sharing, storyboard creation, and digital storytelling (infographics, memes, comics, social networks, online polls, etc.). Narratives showing how climate change entails an increase of social inequalities are still to be built and mainstreamed to permeate into the public debate and translate into climate policies that incorporate a social inclusion approach. The project intends to upscale experiences with PV implemented in developing countries to showcase the social inclusion dimension of climate change in Europe. Through the use of PV and online-based dissemination, the beneficiaries will acquire new digital skills related to the creation of visual contents, storytelling, and online dissemination and communication.The project also intends to promote the use of PV for acknowledging climate-driven inequalities by transferring knowledge and pedagogical approaches to educators, youth and social workers and decision-makers.

The overarching aim of SMART-UP is to encourage the active use of Smart Meters and In-House Displays by vulnerable customers, in those Member States where the roll-out of Smart Meters has been embarked upon. Indeed, previous studies have shown that Smart Meters do not lead to energy savings in the residential sector unless households actively use them and are encouraged to modify their everyday practices. Our project intends to fill in this gap, while also raising awareness on demand response services. The way we intend to do so is by developing a training program for installers, social workers and other frontline staff in contact with vulnerable people, so that they can inform vulnerable consumers about the benefits brought about by smart metering and advise them on how to use their Smart Meter and In Home Display (IHD) units (where fitted) to best effect, each time they are in contact with them. Indeed, most vulnerable and low-income householders require a one-to-one and on-going support. The training packages will be tested and improved before getting disseminated towards the major actors involved in smart meters deployment (DSOs, energy utilities, installers…). From 50 to 100 installers or other frontline staff will be trained in each project partner’s country. Each of them will deliver face-to-face advise to 10 to 20 households, so as to reach 1,000 households in each country. DSO and energy utilities (depending on the national context) will be involved to provide the necessary support for this experiment and to ensure further dissemination of the training packages. Besides empowering vulnerable consumers, the project will serve to get some feedback on their specific needs and on the ways to appropriately communicate with them and help them take profit of smart metering. The project will also help consolidate data on how much energy can be saved if vulnerable householders are empowered to make best use of the opportunities that Smart Metering offers.

Considering that energy management has become a high important issue in future Europe and that there’s a huge lack of trained people to meet the energy management needs, it’s a must to develop a clear, transparent, transnational and crossbording e-training. As SMEs represent more than 9O% of the enterprises and more than 70% of the employment in the participating countries, it’s good to meet these enterprises in their needs for qualified energy managers. The project EEMS4SME or European Energy Management Specialists for SMEs will therefore develop an open training and innovative digital platform all over Europe. A lifelong learning digital environment will be established in the field of energy management to answer the huge lack of global training and vision for energy management, which can thus create employment all over Europe. This innovative e-learning platform is ideal to support individuals in acquiring and developing key competences to aim employability and personal development in a fast changing technical and environmental world. The training will support the development of national and cross-country sectoral skills strategies and will support permeability between different training pathways all over Europe. It will tackle all discrimination in gender, age and race as individuals can learn whenever they want, which is ideal to combine work and training. An international digital training with similar understanding will cross the borders of different regions, cultures and legislations.The transparency and comparability of energy management qualifications and learning outcomes will support labour mobility and facilitate transitions between training and the world of work in energy management all over Europe and will thus create employment chances for women, disabled, unemployed graduates in the energy management field, which is an investigation in Europe’s future.In the strategic partnership a good balance is reached between reliable expertise in education and training in energy efficient technologies for students and for adults with the university Thomas More Kempen – Knowledge Centre for Energy (Belgium), the balikesir sustainable development association (Turkey) and the Association Ecoserveis (Spain) on the one hand and partners with good knowledge of the needs of SMEs as the Chamber of Installation Specialists in Bulgaria (CISB), and the Chamber of Commerce of Padua (Italy). All partners have experience in developing training programs and in qualification and re-qualification of technicians and experts. Furthermore the partnership represents different climate conditions spread all over EU and partners have links with EU wide networks to disseminate the projects results. The exchange of best practices and the merge of different insights and experiences from partners all over Europe will guarantee a good common training program for energy management to meet the needs of many SMEs in Europe.In the course of this project, training activities will be carried out, respectively : Train the trainer, Energy Management Specialist training program and e-learning modules. The train the trainer course is transnational, will take place in Turkey during 5 days and is meant for 2 trainers of each participating country. It will be given by highly certified experts in energy management. The target is double : the different national training modules will be reviewed in order to decide how they will be processed in one global online platform and the trainers will be able to disseminate the training in energy management in their country in the second phase as a test for the online course. This second training is meant for SME staff to become energy management specialists. By an e-learning trajectory and a contact seminar the participants will be able to share their experiences, so that all the experiences can be discussed in a transnational project meeting to optimise the e-learning modules. In this respect, Energy Management System Training of SMEs personnel should be considered as a key target. For the process of dissemination, e-learning modules will be developed and will help the program to reach a wider audience. In the third phase at least 500 people will be trained during the project time with the global e-learning module for energy management specialists.The expected results will be realized is 2 dimensions : national and transnational.A national energy management structure will be available to implement in the facilities. (ISO 50001) and a certified expertise will establish sustainable energy management in the SMEs. A transnational digital platform for adults all over Europe who wish to specialize in energy management and energy efficiency, will be available. An inventarisation of exchanges of best practices in all units of the organisations will reduce energy consumption and production costs and will help to reduce emissions. This project will offer an effective way to mitigate global warming.